Chai Assertion Library (Chai.js)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Chai skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Chai over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 594 708 785
Rank change year-on-year +114 +77 -143
Contract jobs citing Chai 4 11 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.009% 0.018% 0.072%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.045% 0.079% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 38
10th Percentile £508 £520 £434
25th Percentile £519 £525 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £570 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.70% +26.67% -
75th Percentile £556 £573 £588
90th Percentile £568 £575 £665
UK excluding London median daily rate - £570 £450
% change year-on-year - +26.67% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Chai is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,876 13,931 24,130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.50% 23.29% 27.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,162 10,182 17,689
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £660
90th Percentile £767 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 153 242
10th Percentile £20.91 £31.60 £21.10
25th Percentile £39.98 £48.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £64.94
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.85 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +32.65% +8.89%

Chai
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Chai as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Chai in the UK

Chai
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Chai.

Daily rate trend for Chai in the UK

Chai
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Chai.

Hourly rate trend for Chai in the UK

Chai
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Chai within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Work from Home +129 3 £500 -12.28% 1
England +120 2 £538 -5.70% 3
London +99 2 £538 -2.27% 1

Chai
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon EC2
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon EKS
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon S3
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon SQS
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 4 (100.00%) Maven
2 3 (75.00%) Cypress.io
2 3 (75.00%) Git
2 3 (75.00%) GitLab
2 3 (75.00%) Gradle
2 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (75.00%) JMeter
2 3 (75.00%) JUnit
2 3 (75.00%) Mocha
2 3 (75.00%) REST Assured
2 3 (75.00%) Selenium
2 3 (75.00%) SoapUI
2 3 (75.00%) TestNG
2 3 (75.00%) WebDriver
General
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Automation Tester
1 3 (75.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) JAXB
1 3 (75.00%) JAX-RS
1 3 (75.00%) Middleware
1 3 (75.00%) Node.js
1 3 (75.00%) REST
1 3 (75.00%) SOAP
1 3 (75.00%) Spring
1 3 (75.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Backlog Refinement
2 3 (75.00%) BDD
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Microservices
2 3 (75.00%) OOP
2 3 (75.00%) Pair Programming
2 3 (75.00%) SDET
2 3 (75.00%) Sprint Planning
2 3 (75.00%) Sprint Review
3 2 (50.00%) CRM
4 1 (25.00%) API Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (75.00%) Python
3 2 (50.00%) C
4 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
1 2 (50.00%) Salesforce
1 2 (50.00%) SAP